succumbo
Latin
Etymology
From sub- + cubō (“lie down”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /sukˈkum.boː/, [s̠ʊkˈkʊmboː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /sukˈkum.bo/, [sukˈkumbo]
Verb
succumbō (present infinitive succumbere, perfect active succubuī, supine succubitum); third conjugation
- I sink, fall, lie or break down
- I succumb or collapse
- I concede defeat
- I surrender or yield
- I submit
Conjugation
Descendants
- English: succumb
- French: succomber
- Portuguese: sucumbir
- Spanish: sucumbir
- Italian: soccombere
References
- “succumbo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “succumbo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- succumbo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.